Passes musician conductor Reichskulturkammer Reichsmusikkammer Darmstadt 1938-1944

(D22403)

Philipp Sauerwein, musician born 1895 born and living in Rossdorf near Darmstadt. Choir and brass band conductor, violin and horn player.

• Reichskulturkammer Reichsmusikkammer Ausweis, 1938. Reich Chamber of Cultur – Music ID. With pass photo.
• Dienstausweis, 3.3.41. Heeres Standortverwaltung Darmstadt. Used till 1944. Military service ID for being in the military compounds in Darmstadt. With pass photo.
• Reichsmusikkammer Ausweis, 27.10.37. Reich Chamber of Music ID. With pass photo. Bad condition, denazified, in two halves etc.
• Letter 1939 from the Landeskulturwalter Gau Hessen-Nassau, Landesleiter für Musik Rehbock, in Frankfurt. Regarding extra contribution approved by the Reich minister of culture and propaganda in Berlin (Goebbels) for a Christmas event.
• Letter 16.1.43 from the leader of Reichsbahn-Ausbesserungswerk Saarbrücken-Burbach to Sauerwein, at that moment Oberfeldwebel serving with Infanterie-Ersatz-Regiment (mot) 36 in Saarbrücken. He thanks conductor Sauerwein for the concert he gave for the workers of his railway repair shop.

The Reich Chamber of Music (German: Reichsmusikkammer) was a Nazi institution. It promoted “good German music” which was composed by Aryans and seen as consistent with Nazi ideals, while suppressing other, “degenerate” music, which included atonal music, jazz, and, especially, music by Jewish composers. The Chamber was founded in 1933 by Joseph Goebbels as part of the Reich Chamber of Culture, and it operated until the fall of the Nazi Germany in 1945.